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Silly, dark, creepy, or campy -- mind-bending musicals from the likes of David Byrne, Spike Lee, John Turturro, and more!

NOTE: These films are intended for adult audiences - some contain adult themes, situations, and language. Please see ratings, below.

SCHEDULE

Sunday, May 8, 1:30pm-- ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, 2007, Rated PG-13 (133 minutes) An American girl (Evan Rachel Wood) and a British lad (Jim Sturgess) fall in love amid the social and political upheaval of the 1960s in this movie musical from director Julie Taymor that features classic Beatles songs and a mix of live action and animation. On an excursion to America, Liverpool dock worker Jude (Sturgess) falls for Lucy (Wood). But when Lucy's brother (Joe Anderson) is drafted, Jude and Lucy take a stand as anti-war activists.

Sunday, May 15,1:30pm-- REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA, 2008, Rated R (97 minutes) In the near future, a biotech company saves mankind with synthetic replacements for failed organs. But those who default on their new liver or heart are subject to repossession. Shilo (Alexa Vega) navigates this dystopia while searching for a cure for her rare illness. Her odyssey is set to a number of catchy songs in this tongue-in-cheek opera. Paris Hilton, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head and Sarah Brightman round out the deliciously diverse cast.

Sunday, May 22, 1:30pm-- PASSING STRANGE, 2009, Non-Rated (136 minutes) A young black musician named Stew (played by singer-songwriter Stew himself) flees his comfortable middle-class roots in Los Angeles for a soul-searching journey to Europe and gets wrapped up in the music scene of 1980s Amsterdam and West Berlin. The one-of-a-kind Broadway musical, which netted Stew a Tony for Best Book, comes to cinematic life courtesy of film icon Spike Lee. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival

NOTE: Library closed on Sundays until September – The rest of the series takes place on Thursday evenings in June

Thursday, June 9, 6:45pm -- THE BIG GAY MUSICAL, 2009, Non-Rated (90 minutes) Life imitates a play, and that's just the thing for sending up the Bible in this no-feathers-barred fantasia that swirls around Paul (Daniel Robinson) and Eddie (Joey Dudding), the leads in a musical called "Adam and Steve Just the Way God Made 'Em." Offstage, the pair act out the story of their own star-crossed lives: Paul, recently dumped, just wants to stay in, while Eddie's still coming out. But rest assured that the show tunes will go on.

Thursday, June 16, 6:45pm -- ROAD, MOVIE, 2009, Non-Rated (97 minutes) Reluctant to take over his father's flailing hair-oil business, young Vishnu (Abhay Deol) becomes the sole proprietor of a traveling cinema after he hops on a truck containing a library of film reels and a film projector. During his odyssey across the Rajasthan desert, he befriends a young runaway, a gorgeous gypsy and others in this funny and romantic adventure, a hit at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Genre: Bollywood Language: Hindi with translation